arduino as RC car controller

[randalcr]

Hi guys. I've been working on modifying an RC corvette that I had laying around into being controlled by an arduino R3 through a WiFly shield. I have the wiring done for the most part and am in the process of adding a few lights and for a little added fun. But I am a little lost on the programming.

My question is, has anyone used LabView to make a dashboard type drive program for this type of thing, and whether or not I can use the built-in network comm tools to communicate with it over WiFi.

I know that it can be done with a program called Processing, but I figured it'd be much better if I could do it (the dashboard stuff at least) in labview.

I plan on using this project as a tool to take to demos with my team.

Any input at all is very welcome!

Thanks all.

[The Doctor]

I don't think the Arduino can run NetworkTables.

It doesn't have enough RAM. Did you really want to use the FRC driver station? I'm sure you can do it in Processing using simple data packet transfer.

[randalcr]

It is possible to do, to some extent. There are other projects floating around where people send commands to arduino over wifi, but how they do it is slightly beyond me currently.

I want to build a standalone dashboard for the arduino, that will pass control data from the joysticks to the arduino. I'm not going to use the actual FRC driverstaion for it.

[ILAMtitan]

Originally Posted by randalcr

I want to build a standalone dashboard for the arduino, that will pass control data from the joysticks to the arduino. I'm not going to use the actual FRC driverstaion for it.

If you are going to build a stand alone drivers station as well, you might want to reconsider WiFi. The network stack is overkill for your application, and doesn't give you anything extra if you aren't going to be talking via high level protocols. I would consider moving to the XBee wireless system. It uses a simplified version of ZigBee and essentially just acts as a wireless serial protocol (with some additional features and usage caveats). There are some premade shields and a lot of software examples to get you going.

[randalcr]

Ok, i'll look in to that. Thanks!